Issue: May 2024

The Ancient Greek orator, philanderer, drunk, traitor and hero would have felt at home in modern politics

Silicon Valley has stolen huge amounts of original material in order to “train” its GPT models

We should celebrate the glorious wartime cinematic masterpiece that Churchill wanted to ban

The map of the world is likely to be redrawn, thanks to the decline of post war Pax Americana, an expansionist Russia and China, and the push for ethnic sovereignty

Schemes such as HS2 cost billions of pounds while reducing UK productivity

Blair, Clinton, Ahern et al were credited with putting together the Northern Ireland peace deal, but 800 British agents also played their part

Londoners are sentimental about the early-twentieth-century Tottenham Court Road store, Heal’s

Beneath the excitable phrases and endless underlining, Victoria’s correspondence doggedly promoted a coherent policy

Socialists, communists and liberals were united by a conviction that free trade could, and would, promote democracy and justice

The most pernicious effect of aligning art with political activism is that the distinction between the two is lost